in all your interactions with ambassadors and heads of states and governments, if there is some element of the u.s. government that they have spoken to, isn t it usually that they come in, talk to the ambassador, try to clarify the statement? is that a true characterization of high elements of diplomacy work. sticker that s a reasonable possibility. things work all kinds of different ways. when you met with president zelensky after the july 25 phone call. you met him on july 26, did the investigations for joe biden, but not meeting? i don t recall joe biden coming up. was their frustration expressed to you about the phone call that happened the day before? no, as i testified, everybody said it was a good call. in your opinion, your interactions with president zielinski, is he a straight shooter or is he a liar? he impressed me greatly and that s why wanted to get he and president trump together as soon as possible. when he makes express
something of course that goes back to the very start of the country. every president wants to have as much flexibility and secrecy as possible with how they conduct their actions. president washington, in fact, was the first obviously to exert executive privilege. but his initial attempt to exert executive privilege i think is very insightful for us because washington said essentially i need to have absolute control and absolute secrecy over my dealings with foreign countries to make diplomacy work. therefore i need executive privilege. however, he then said, unless the inquiry is about an impeachment. the constitution he said, arguing an impeachment hearing trumps everything else. washington basically recognized impeachment was more important than executive authority because the entire point of having an impeachment was to check executive authority. he thought in that case all the files should be opened up. i want to read something from the washington post today. it says, presiden
that continues to work against iran s support of terrorism, the challenge, of course, as the united states has been isolated when the president withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement, we are having difficulty with european allies to get the support we need, we have to isolate iran. reports from the houthis apparently the saudi arabia and to the united states, i don t know if you saw my question to the secretary of state, that iran is planning another attack in saudi arabia, if iran were in the middle of all of this, watch another attack at saudi arabia, would that demand a military response? there s really not a military solution to the problem of iran, we need to make diplomacy work, clearly there could be a miscalculation, we have to defend ourselves, no question about that. but we have to reduce the where we are where we could have this miscalculation, it would be disaster rouse if disastrous and have consequences in the
continue to work gains iran s support of terrorism. challenge. we re having difficulty with our european allies to get type of support we need, but we have to isolate iran. john: there are reports from houthis to saudi arabia and to united states, i don t know if you saw my question to secretary of state, that iran is planning another attack in saudi arabia. if iran were in the middle of this, launch another attack at saudi arabia, would that demand a military response? there is not a military solution to the problem of iran. we need to make diplomacy work. clearly there could be a miscalculation, we is to defend ourselves, butt buty. if would be disastrous if we got into a fight war in iran. it would have consequences throughout the region, not in
full complaint and we also expect we ll establish a path to the whistleblower to speak directly to the house and senate intelligence committees as required by law. jon: tensions between the u.s. and iran are reaching critical levels as the pentagon announces more troops will head to the middle east after last weekend s attacks on two saudi toil facilities. president trump and his counterpart will both attend the u.n. general assembly. this is a dangerous situation. the temperature couldn t be hotter between the united states and iran. our job is to isolate iran. with the what the president need to do is get a international coalition to work against iran s support of terrorism. we need to make diplomacy work.